What’s the Biggest Standard Notebook Hard Drive Available?

2TB 2.5″ SATA hard drives are finally widely available as bare internal drives, saving users the trouble having to crack open the Seagate Slim to get at all that spinning-platter goodness.

The bad news?

The crazy trend continues of the USB drive being cheaper than the bare drive it contains – the Seagate slim is $99 as of this writing, while the bare drive will run you $115. It may not make much sense, but at least buyers now have a choice – get a free USB3 enclosure with your new 2TB drive (for the price of a little effort getting the thing open), or pay an extra $16 and save yourself the hassle.

And for those interested, we’ve been using these drives since their release almost a year ago, with no problems to date.